An Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis is now on trial at the Vatican, accused of sexually abusing seminarians.
The Vatican had insisted Zanchetta was only facing governance problems at the time, and that the first accusation of abuse only came in late 2018.
Francis acknowledged in the interview that he asked Zanchetta about the first accusations against him, made in 2015 and involving nude selfies on his cellphone. He said he gave Zanchetta the benefit of the doubt when he claimed his phone had been hacked. A year later, documents show that Oran’s seminary rector was so concerned about Zanchetta’s behavior that he told the Vatican ambassador in a formal complaint that “urgent measures” were needed to protect his first-year students, since their introductory classes were held in Zanchetta’s residence.
The 2016 complaint, signed by the rector and two former vicar generals, listed Zanchetta’s problematic behavior with seminarians, including walking by their rooms at night, asking them for massages, going into their rooms to wake them up in the morning and sitting on their beds, inviting them to drink alcohol and having an “obsessive omnipresence” in the seminary that made the young men feel “asphyxiated.”Francis didn’t refer to that 2016 complaint in his interview.
He denied the appointment to the Vatican’s financial oversight office was a soft landing, saying that a psychiatric analysis had determined Zanchetta had an aptitude for administration and that he required further treatment in Spain, making his continued residence in Argentina unrealistic.A digest of essential news, insight and analysis from L.A. Times editors.
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